Green Party Councillor Adriane Carr Resigns from Vancouver City Council
VANCOUVER, BC – After more than a decade of dedicated public service, Green Party Councillor Adriane Carr has announced her resignation from Vancouver City Council, effective immediately.
Carr was first elected as Vancouver’s inaugural Green Party Councillor in 2011. Since then, she has been re-elected three times, twice (in 2014 and 2018) at the top of the polls, and is Vancouver’s longest-serving city councillor. Carr’s impact on Vancouver politics is immeasurable, and her legacy is enshrined in city bylaws.
During her time in office, Carr championed issues including climate action, affordable housing, and transparency in governance. Among Carr’s achievements are motions that led to the development of the Vancouver Plan (Vancouver’s first city-wide plan, including ‘complete neighbourhoods’ and reassigning neighbourhood streets for residents’ use), Council’s COVID Recovery Committee, protecting recreational water quality, fast-tracking city-led zero-emission building projects, increasing the city’s tree canopy, decreasing food waste, encouraging green roofs, increasing protection for renters in Broadway Plan areas, getting electric power drops for the film industry’s location shoots so they can stop using diesel generators, and dedicating capital funds to reducing greenhouse gases (which started with retrofitting public libraries with cooling to be safe places for public retreat during extreme heat). She also played a pivotal role in developing Vancouver’s Climate Emergency Action Plan and the UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) Implementation Plan, and, as her last motion in December 2024, pursuing a collaborative pilot project with Vancouver International Airport and the BC Non-Profit Housing Association that could offer YVR passengers the opportunity to purchase carbon offsets that would be used to energy retrofit older affordable apartment buildings.
Carr also served on Metro Vancouver’s Board of Directors, and as Chair of Metro’s Climate Action Committee from 2018 to 2022, helping develop the region’s Climate 2050 plan. She also served as the city’s inaugural representative to Metro Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Innovation Centre, helping establish the centre as a leader in supporting industry transformation in climate-smart building and urban decarbonization.
Carr’s decision comes after much reflection and a desire to spend more time with her family. Despite no longer holding elected office, Carr will continue her lifelong commitment to climate action and Green politics, working alongside her husband, Paul George.
With Carr stepping down from City Council, the Green Party of Vancouver will now open nominations for candidates to fill her seat in the upcoming by-election. “We are committed to finding a strong candidate to continue Adriane’s legacy and ensure that Green voices remain a strong presence on City Council,” said Green Party Executive Director Nick Poppell. Interested individuals are encouraged to submit their resume and a statement of intent to [email protected]. The deadline for nomination applications will end on Jan 21st 2025.
“It’s so important that people vote in this by-election, and they elect a Green colleague to replace me to work alongside Pete Fry”, concluded Carr.
A celebration of Adriane Carr’s remarkable contributions to Vancouver will be held on February 7th, with further details to follow.
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